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How to use iText pdfOCR to recognize text in scanned documents

Wed - 07/01/2020

A tutorial for generating searchable, archivable PDFs for your workflow with iText pdfOCR. Our newly-released open-source add-on for iText 7 enables text recognition and extraction for scanned documents, and conversion into editable PDFs.

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A new chapter in HTML to PDF conversion with iText: pdfHTML 3.0.0!

Mon - 05/25/2020

We take a closer look at the latest release of our HTML to PDF converter, pdfHTML, which is now at version 3.0.0.

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iText 7 Suite 7.1.11 released

Mon - 04/20/2020

Brings new features and improvements to the entire iText 7 family.

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How to modify XFA documents before flattening

Thu - 04/16/2020

Some helpful tips and tricks for modifying XFA documents before you flatten them.

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PDF portfolios and how to use them

Thu - 04/09/2020

Some tips and use cases for using PDF portfolios to package many different files in a single PDF

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Introducing the new iText 7 Demo Lab!

Thu - 03/19/2020

Demonstrating the power of iText 7 to both developers and non-developers

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We just shipped iText DITO v. 1.3

Tue - 03/10/2020

Announcing the release of version 1.3 of iText DITO, our low-code PDF generator.

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Another case for the PDF detectives: The mystery of the disappearing / appearing text

Tue - 02/25/2020

It’s been quite a while since we’ve done one of these. A few years ago, we presented a PDF Days talk entitled “7 cases for the PDF support detectives” which detailed a variety of mysterious PDF issues that we’ve solved over the years.

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20th Birthday Release: iText 7.1.10

Fri - 02/14/2020

14th February 2020... It’s a date which has been carved in the minds of our developers here at iText for several months now. And it’s not because it’s a day we want to spend with our loved ones at home. It’s because that’s the day the iText library, which we are working on daily, marks its 20th birthday: Feb 14, 2000 is the day when we released our first lines of code!

Now, twenty years on, we’re at iText Core version 7.1.10!

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New product release: Convert PDF to images with iText pdfRender

Mon - 01/20/2020

Introducing a new iText 7 add-on, pdfRender, which allows you to render PDFs as images. Powered by IDRsolutions, pdfRender integrates with iText 7 to enable the display of PDF content as easily as displaying an image.

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iText 7.1.9 Release - Now with better text extraction, SVG support and XFA improvements!

Mon - 12/02/2019

We're pleased to announce iText 7.1.9, our latest (and last of 2019!) quarterly release.
This release includes further documentation and SVG improvements, as well as updated versions of the pdfHTML, pdfXFA and pdf2Data add-ons.

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Can we use machine learning to achieve PDF/UA compliance?

Wed - 11/27/2019

We discuss the future of accessibility and PDFs, and how we could use AI to help machines to read.

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